Breast cancer is the most common type of cancer which affects women in India and, by 2026 the country will witness rise in the breast cancer incidence to 35 per 100,000 women as compared to the present rate of 25.8 per cent, says a Confederation of Indian Industry (CII).

"Tumours are smart, but we are really close to beating them and to making our bodies better able to fight them," Giamp aolo Tortora, director of the Medical Oncology at Rome's Policlinico Gemelli's teaching hospital, told Adnkronos Salute in an interview.

The phenomenon, named 'nanomaterials induced endothelial leakiness' (NanoEL), accelerates the movement of cancer cells from the primary tumour and also causes circulating cancer cells to escape from blood circulation.

It remains unclear how many patients may have been exposed to the carcinogens, but agency leaders have previously estimated that 1 million to 2 million people may have taken the medicines with the impurities.

Rakesh Roshan has been diagnosed with throat cancer. Hrithik Roshan took to Instagram to share a picture with father, revealing that the latter has been diagnosed with early stage squamous cell carcinoma of the throat.

The models Support Vector Regression (SVR) and Non-linear Canonical Correlation Analysis by Neural Networks (n-CCA) are both able to accurately predict the severity of three common symptoms faced by cancer patients depression, anxiety and sleep disturbance.